I bought this stamp at a friend's sale the other day and decided that making a card with it was just the therapy I needed today. I love the reminder of this verse that EVERY day is a day that the Lord has made and I need to rejoice in it. This day-where my mom is losing ground rapidly as she nears the end of her cancer journey-where my adult son starts to see a counselor to deal with his depression-THIS day....I choose to rejoice....I choose to do normal things ...I choose to focus on the goodness and mercy of God.
This is my sample card using Cathy's great sketch. It seriously looks good no matter what way you flip it. I almost always print out the sketches so I can physically turn them to see how things look in different orientations. For this one, I've rotated to the left once. I decided to try watercoloring with Gelatos for vibrant color. I stamped and then embossed my image in black ep on watercolor paper. I wet a paintbrush and grabbed color from the end of each Gelato color to paint my image. I used yellow and orange on the flowers and green on the bottom part. I used an Olive marker scribbled on acrylic block to add some darker green to the foliage as I only have one color of green Gelato. I also used marker for my lady bug. I used a clear star jelly roll pen to add some highlights. I then cut my piece down to a 3x4" size using paper snips to cut out of the box elements. I layered this on a piece of black cs to show off these. I kept the bg simple with one color but set off "panels" by partially embossing with the fan ef then scoring horizontal lines. I accented with a button in the orangish flower center color and black twine.
Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 GMT Views: 1619
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Accessories: Fancy Fan EF, Black EP, Scoring Board, Paper Snips, Black Hemp, SU Button, Gelatos, Paintbrush, Gelly Roll Clear Star Pen, Markers-Old Olive, Real Red
Techniques: Watercoloring, Out of the Box, Dry Embossing, Scoring
Registered: January 2, 2011 Location: Fairmont, MN Posts: 10169
Wed, Sep 02, 2015 @ 2:17 PM
Such a beautiful scripture to live each of our days by!! You have done an amazing job of coloring it and love how you chose to emboss the one side rather than use designer paper.
Registered: April 16, 2008 Location: Meridian, Idaho Posts: 8507
Wed, Sep 02, 2015 @ 10:04 PM
Such a beautiful interpretation of the sketch and so meaningful with all that is happening in your family. God bless and thanks for sharing both your art and your heart. Keeping you close in thought and prayer.
------------------------------ Stef
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Registered: October 21, 2010 Location: in the okanagan in b.c. canada Posts: 13012
Thu, Sep 03, 2015 @ 4:17 PM
Gail, TY so much for the reminder and being a great inspiration to us. Will keep you and family in prayers. The vivid colors paired with the black is a perfect way to display this lovely verse...great job with the sketch...I keep forgetting to try them in different angles...LOVE it...TFs..HUGS
------------------------------ We as people are raindrops of colorful ink , falling down Crisp and Clear, each a different shade more vibrant then the last, but once we realize at the bottom of an endless abyss we all fall into the same inkpot forming one color, only then can we come together as one My son.